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Old 10-12-2010
Find and Rename files using (find mv and sed)
In response to a closed thread for degraff63 at
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...find-exec.html

the following command might do it as some shells spit it without the "exec bash -c " part:
Code:
Find . -name "*.model" -exec bash -c "mv {} \`echo {} | sed -e  's/[^A-Za-z0-9_./]/_/g'\`" \;



the earlier command he wrote was.
Code:
Find . -name "*.model" -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_./]/_/g'` \;




Last edited by jim mcnamara; 10-13-2010 at 04:45 AM.. Reason: url tags
 
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